[yalurker]

To play devil's advocate, the moment the government gets involved, so do politics.

Contraception and sexually transmitted diseases - will the religious right / moral majority voters turn against a representative who supports medical research for these?

What about diseases associated with lifestyle - smoking, alcohol, obesity. Will a parent group ask why X million is going to emphysema research when it could have gone to childhood cancer research instead? What about the anti-vaccine groups? Vegan/Vegetarian groups? Whatever other special interest group or political viewpoint?

I really don't want to see Bill O'Reilly or Rosie O'Donnell on tv expressing their outrage at why funding is going to curing the wrong diseases/disorders.